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The article offers a synthetic and comparative overview of some of the principal theories that have proposed paradigmatic models for the analysis of historiographic discourse and activity during the last decades. Its objective is to propose a global vision in order to establish a dialogue between the main schools of discursive analysis (“narrativism”, “performativism”, the history of the concepts and the theories of temporality), the constructivist and empiricist models, and new post-discursive theories, these defenders of the “presence” and the “experience” of the past in historiography. The question that will run through this essay can be formulated thus: It is possible to construct a model which integrates elements of these highly isolated paradigms to achieve a more complete and crosscutting comprehension of historiography'Key Words

The task of the historiographer is undeniably upon times of crisis today, and questions revolving around the usefulness of history have achieved an increasing concern among members of this guild. Likewise, the topic of the ethical-political responsibility of the historian has been object of an invaluable production in the past years. This article, which defends that Ethics enables a vindication of the historian’s work, lines up in this series of proposals, but it does through the observation of a basic aspect in the historiographical operation such as that of anachronism. The reassessment of this concept may shed light on the role that Ethics plays in the work of the historian.